If I win the lottery jackpot, I want...

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:49 am

...one of these:

IBM "Blue Waters"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/11 ... wer7_ncsa/

"the first detailed specifications of the "Blue Waters" system IBM is building for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)........a 10 petaflop system (peak) comprised of 38,900 eight-core Power7 chips with each chip running at 4.0GHz. This monster will have an astonishing 620TB of memory and 5PB/s of memory bandwidth.

According to the documents, IBM will rely on a 1.30PB/s interconnect to link the systems and will feed them with 26PB of storage. As if that's not enough, IBM will offer an exabyte of archival storage. Why not?

This insane machine will be built out of more than 100 racks filled with servers and storage systems, taking up close to 4,400 sq. feet."

Wonder how many BOINC credits per day this would achieve???

regards

Tim

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:04 pm

Wouldn`t fancy paying for it`s leccie bill though!

UBT - Nogbo · Post by **UBT - Nogbo** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:16 pm

May need to upgrade the Broadband a bit as well

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:52 pm

This insane machine will be built out of more than 100 racks filled with servers and storage systems, taking up close to 4,400 sq. feet."

Wonder how many BOINC credits per day this would achieve???

Probs about 500 a day on my current projects :lol:

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:57 pm

Don't suppose they'll have much use for one of these then!!

http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/I ... C-1956.htm